Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (3DS)

alaTest has collected and analyzed 179 reviews of Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (3DS). The average rating for this product is 4.6/5, compared to an average rating of 4.2/5 for other Nintendo 3DS Games for all reviews.

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Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer review

Walking into a broken home.

Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer is a cute, fun creation experience, but absolutely do not buy it. It should be DLC for A New Leaf, and would have added a cool element to the full experience. As a standalone game, it loses all that is great about...

Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer review

Unlike other Animal Crossing games, Happy Home Designer doesn't just drop you off in the middle of nowhere with a massive amount of debt to pay. Nor does it have a 24-hour day cycle, fauna to catch, or bells to earn. What it does have, however, is one...

So many furniture options; You can customise items with your own patterns; The villagers are hilarious

You can't ever do badly; You don't have as much freedom as in New Leaf

Utterly charming with a fantastic set of design tools, but it'll make you crave the freedom of more traditional Animal Crossing games.

Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer Review

On paper, Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer turns one of the most addictive parts of the Animal Crossing formula—building a home from scratch—into an appealing offshoot. As a newly-minted employee of Nook's Homes, you must seek out adorable,...

Expanded item catalog; New touchscreen controls; Can design yards

Doesn't reward effort in designs; Doing the bare minimum receives top marks; Extremely limited in breadth; No open field, only a central hub; New Leaf is better at the same price; No StreetPass functionality

The happiness of Happy Home Designer is a sheen. Poke at the surface and the clients are all too delighted about whatever you design, wherever it's located, however you fill it, and no matter the effort you put into it. If you're content with looking...